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> My understanding is this how git works. It launches a process and waits for it to exit. > Again this is my expectation that this is how git works....

I have to add that it's a shame that I can't use NotepadNext for this purpose because it launches really fast from "not running" when invoked in Terminal using `open...

> True, but the implementation is likely much easier than other alternatives. Not sure if it's possible to run a second instance of a `.app` application in macOS while one...

I don't have deep knowledge of C++ but from what I know and what I just looked up on Stack Overflow, you should be able to do this: 1. CLI...

> > CLI binary tells NotepadNext the path of file to open > > But how does it do this? Don't know any of those Qt specific stuff, but I...

In addition to the above comment: > So it needs a specific return value. I should clarify that while the CLI binary stub doesn't need to tell Git about whether...

Additional comment: `man open` shows: > `--args` - All remaining arguments are passed to the opened application in the argv parameter to main(). These arguments are not opened or interpreted...

Do any of those comments make any sense? I'm no expert in any of these, but I'm only speaking from my experience as a software engineer.

@matthewyang204 is this a proposal, or is there an actual tool that exists today? > when the file is closed How would the executable know that the file was closed...

Referencing here, a comment with my findings: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/48192#discussioncomment-7310817